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The Upswing- Are we finally nearing the bottom of a century -long historical cycle?
The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again Robert Putnam 2020 “All of history, a great wheel,...
Dan Connors
Feb 20, 20216 min read


The Future We Choose?
The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis Christiana Figueres, Tom Rivett-Carnac 2020 For all of history, mankind has seemed...
Dan Connors
Feb 15, 20215 min read


May 1940- When the whole world went mad and one man stood up to inspired us all.
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz Erik Larson 2020 On May 10,1940 Winston Churchill...
Dan Connors
Feb 14, 20217 min read


Surviving Death
Death. We all avoid thinking about it or talking about it because it's unknown and scary. But there's something about winter that makes...
Dan Connors
Feb 6, 20216 min read


Post Corona- How will our world change?
Post Corona: From Crisis to Opportunity Scott Galloway 2020 Our world has been changing rapidly for decades...
Dan Connors
Jan 31, 20215 min read


Why we need consequences for being wrogn
Was a secret cabal of Satan-worshiping, cannibalistic pedophiles running a global child sex-trafficking ring about to be exposed and...
Dan Connors
Jan 30, 20215 min read


30 Hours with Obama- A Promised Land Reviewed.
A Promised Land- (Presidential Memoirs part I) Barack Obama 2020 Generally I tend to shy away from autobiographies, because I see...
Dan Connors
Jan 26, 20217 min read


Money- the key to happiness or the treadmill of misery?
The Psychology of Money- Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness Morgan Housel 2020 Money is one of the most important things...
Dan Connors
Jan 22, 20214 min read


Is Love the Way? Essays from America's Pope
Love Is the Way: Holding on to Hope in Troubling Times Bishop Michael Curry, Sara Grace As a religious skeptic, I tend to look at...
Dan Connors
Jan 16, 20214 min read


Wyoming and Vermont- two similar states at the extremes of America
Vermont and Wyoming- two small states that couldn't be more similar, but also that couldn't be more different. Geographically, both are...
Dan Connors
Jan 13, 20215 min read


Subliminal - An entire world that both saves us and deceives us
Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior Leonard Mlodinow 2012 Look at the tasty photo above. In addition to selling...
Dan Connors
Jan 10, 20215 min read


The World Happiness Report and the secret sauce of Scandinavia
Imagine a poll of every country in the entire world where someone goes to random citizens and asks them to rate their happiness on a...
Dan Connors
Jan 7, 20217 min read


An Outsiders Guide to Humans- how an autistic person makes sense of the rest of us
An Outsider's Guide to Humans: What Science Taught Me about What We Do and Who We Are Camilla Pang 2020 Camilla Pang was diagnosed...
Dan Connors
Jan 2, 20214 min read


College- good investment or money down the toilet?
We are throwing more and more money and bright young minds into the confusing cesspool that is today's higher education system, and what...
Dan Connors
Dec 31, 20205 min read


How to not be an emotional moron. What quadrant are you in right now?
Permission to Feel: Unlocking the Power of Emotions to Help Our Kids, Ourselves, and Our Society Thrive Mark Brackett 2019 Are emotions...
Dan Connors
Dec 28, 20205 min read


Normalcy Bias- the Pandemic's biggest killer
When the Titanic hit an iceberg and started sinking, the people aboard were shocked. Most of them were in denial that this grand ship,...
Dan Connors
Dec 23, 20204 min read


Beating the Loneliness Epidemic- straight from the US Surgeon General
Together: Why Social Connection Holds the Key to Better Health, Higher Performance, and Greater Happiness Vivek Murthy, 2020 Loneliness...
Dan Connors
Dec 22, 20207 min read


Black Swans- or why all predictions about the future are screwed.
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Nassim Nicholas Taleb 2007 What do 9/11, Google, the Great Recession, Covid-19,...
Dan Connors
Dec 17, 20204 min read


The Galvins of Colorado- Six schizophrenic sons and a treasure trove of data for researchers
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family Robert Kolker, 2020 Schizophrenia is one of the scariest of all the mental...
Dan Connors
Dec 14, 20203 min read


25 Christmas and Holiday songs, videos and stories that will lift up your soul.
“Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.” – Elton John “Music is a weapon in the...
Dan Connors
Dec 13, 202014 min read
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